Last night was Martin's lab's Christmas party. They started off with a potluck dinner and secret santa gift opening, then we all boarded a bus ... and a train ... and then another bus to get to the sport center in Wallisellen where all the curling magic happens.
Here are Nikko and Martin with their road sodas:
In case you had any doubts, yes, it was still snowing. Here are the 3 guys Martin shares an office/lab space with, from right Mattias, Julian, and Oliver (not the guy in the background texting). Oliver's girlfriend is next to him but she was the only girlfriend that was brought along, then there was me and one other wife and that was it for significant others.
They're all either Swiss or German.
There were about 35-40 of us going curling so we rented out the whole place, though it only has 4 lanes. First we had to do some exercises to learn how to curl and then we got to play for real. It was really fun but boy that ice is slippery. A lot of people fell but nobody got injured. I think we all have bruises on our knees today from kneeling when pushing off with the stone.
Here's Martin lining up his shot:
And the action shot (see his right knee on the ice, that's where the bruises are):
And the follow through:
Here's our team doing some sweeping while I helped out by taking a picture of it:
We ended up tied 7-7 at the end of our game. We had a pretty high scoring game compared to the other 3 groups.
After curling, it was time to hit the bar that was there. It had a glass wall overlooking the curling rink so it was neat.
I would highly recommend curling to any of you! It was a very good time.
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